Mal ,'Shindig'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I finished Cruisie's Welcome to Temptation (traded with Nicole for my copy of Tell Me Lies) at Deb's, and read the excerpt in the back for Fast Women. Didn't have Fast Women, had to console myself with Mairelon the Magician on the trip home. It's okay, but it's no Cruisie. Must find Fast Women. Want. Want now.
I will make myself finish Mairelon before allowing myself to start Sorcery and Cecelia. Or I may track down a used copy of Fast Women....
Profile addy is good, Kat. I'll look for your thing.
Shy librarians tend to become catalogers and systems librarians, IME.
I had a whole long thing saying that shy librarians became catalogers and gov docs librarians, but then didn't want to a) confuse people, or b) perpetuate stereotypes. I can see that I shouldn't have worried about that here!
Alicia, I love The Robber Bride.
I loved it, too, but I'm an Atwood fangirl.I'm not sure which is my favorite though.
The Robber Bride is a fantastic novel; I love the way atwood uses different points of view in it.
I picked up two interlibrary loans today, and while the librarian was processing my checkout, I picked them up and opened them up to see their everyday homes (Cal State Fullerton and the Framington, NM public library). She looked a question at me, and I said, "I'm always curious about where they come from." She replied, "I KNOW! Isn't it cool?"
So I think I'll stop worrying that the staff of the Seattle Public Library find my requests annoying.
She looked a question at me, and I said, "I'm always curious about where they come from." She replied, "I KNOW! Isn't it cool?"
This is my mother, mainly because it's actually what she does for a living. Back in the day, when I was looking at colleges, I'd mention one and she'd say, all knowlingly, "Ahhhh, [Insert OCLC code here]."
She replied, "I KNOW! Isn't it cool?"
I used to have the best time doing that -- it made me feel all smart by proxy. Like, I didn't go to MIT and get a doctorate in Advanced Nosepicking Physics, but I did get a book (for somebody else) from their World-Class Nosepicking Library!
(In my case, it was 99% academic, and you know it took me a year of working in human services research before I understood the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. So, although all the brainiac stuff rubbed off on my ego, it did not rub off onto my brains.)
These days most of my requests come from the statewide network, which can I say is awesome and seamlessly easy as requests go? (Massachusetts recently went from easy regional/difficult statewide to easy statewide, without anybody but wonks and librarians noticing.) All I have to remember is that I live in WEST Somerville, not east.
Glad to hear some love for Robber Bride. I'm in a reading slump - I didn't get very far in the book before putting it down because I'm just not in the mood to read. Tried picking up somethingl lighter, but The Thin Pink Line isn't working for me, either.
When the reading bug starts nipping at me again, I'll definitely continue with the Atwood.
I'm so tired I can't follow plot. My usual standby, really trashy novels, isn't working; I get halfway in and skim to the end. I've gotten several books I was looking forward to (notably The Grand Tour, sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia) and lost interest half-way through.
Come back, my reading Muse!